Quotation

I listened to the news of riots that had erupted in Nigeria. A young woman journalist assigned to cover the Miss World competition there had written, “Muslims thought it was immoral to bring ninety-two women to Nigeria to ask them to revel in vanity. What would the Prophet Muhammad think?...He would probably have chosen a wife from one of them.” More than two hundred people were killed in the riots that broke out. The office of her newspaper was burned down, and the reporter was forced to leave the country. ..[Then], instead of blaming the violence on the men who were burning down houses and murdering people,[a British woman who had organized the pageant] blamed the young reporter for making “unfortunate remarks.” I was incensed by this excusing of fanaticism. That journalist...was right: the Prophet married most of his wives because they had caught his eye...